Silently protesting Muslim woman, Jewish man, kicked out of Trump rally

A Muslim woman was kicked out of a Donald Trump presidential campaign rally after staging a silent protest against the Republican frontrunner, who has called for a ban on Muslims entering the US.

Television footage from the event in South Carolina showed the woman, Rose Hamid, a 56-year-old flight attendant, wearing a head scarf and loose fitting green shirt reading “Salam. I come in peace.” She stood in silence looking at the podium as the rest of the crowd sat.

Later, she was escorted out as Trump supporters waved placards bearing his name in her face and chanted for him.

Hamid stated the protest alongside a Jewish immigration attorney named Marty Rosenbluth. Both of them were wearing “yellow star-shaped badges that bore the word ‘Muslim’ and were intentionally reminiscent of the yellow badges Jewish people were forced to wear under Nazi rule,” the Guardian reported.

Rosenbluth was also removed.

In a Facebook post Friday, Rosenbluth wrote: “We are all out and safe. Once again we got them to disrupt their own rally. We were standing there quietly and they started shouting. It went on for about 15 minutes. They should have let us stand.”

Hamid said one supporter of the billionaire real-estate mogul bawled at her: “You have a bomb, you have a bomb.”

“The ugliness really came out fast and that’s really scary,” Hamid told CNN after Friday night’s rally.

Trump, who leads the polls for the Republican nomination for the White House, ignited a global firestorm last month when he called for the temporary ban on Muslims entering the US, following an attack in California by a radicalized Muslim couple that left 14 people dead.

“There is hatred against us that is unbelievable,” Trump told the rally, according to CNN, after Hamid and several others were ejected. “It’s their hatred. It’s not our hatred.”

But a prominent Muslim advocacy group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), condemned Hamid’s removal and called on Trump to apologize.

“The image of a Muslim woman being abused and ejected from a political rally sends a chilling message to American Muslims,” CAIR executive director Nihad Awad said in a statement carried by US media.

Muslims in the United States have faced a backlash following the November terror attacks in Paris and the San Bernardino attack in California on December 2.

Critics of Trump’s bombastic run for the presidency accuse him of fanning the flames and Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton says he is the “best recruiter” for the Islamic State extremist group.

Rosenbluth was removed last month from a Trump rally in South Carolina, when he also wore the yellow Muslim badge.

Rival candidate John Kasich, the governor of Ohio, said the crowd’s treatment of Hasmid and Rosenbluth was “terrible,” the Guardian said.

Kasich warned that footage of the incident would be viewed in the Muslim world, harming America’s standing, and potentially damaging its credibility in the battle against Islasmic State terrorism.